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Friday, 9 August 2013

Which Is Truly Better: Mac or PC? The Wisdom Of The Crowd

OK I know what you're thinking - there is no way of truly
deciding whether a PC or mac is better. I mean come on! This is a
personal preference so it really doesn't matter what I think right?

Well
maybe there is a way of deciding which is better. When one considers
the differences between a Mac and a PC: one must think about what the
majority of the world values in their computers. The interface that the
people prefer may not tell us which operating system performs faster or
has fewer problems - but it will teach us the wisdom of the crowd.
According to the online dictionary, the wisdom of the crowd is "the
process of taking into account the collective opinion of a group of
individuals rather than a single expert to answer a question." This
theory has almost always proven to be the better method of determining
the most accurate answer to a question.

For example, if you were
to guess how many jelly beans there are in a glass jar, the average
guess of a group of people will most likely be closer to the correct
answer than the guess of one individual. Therefore, when more people
choose one computer over the other they are in a sense proving which
computer is better.

In the question of what is the better
operating system - the mac or the PC; we must turn to statistics to
answer this question. I could have answered this question with a very
detailed and opinionated explanation that would perhaps make very good
sense from the technical side of things. But instead, I will answer this
question by using the wisdom of the crowd method to come up with a more
statistically accurate solution to the problem at hand.

According to statistics on http://www.w3schools.com,
since 2003 PC has been the dominating platform that most people used
throughout the world. All the way up to may of 2013 the windows
interface has dominated almost 75% of the market. Therefore, according
to the wisdom of the crowd theory, the windows operating system is the
better computer. The PC comes out on top.

But wait a minute... Are
we satisfied with this answer (surely the mac lovers are not)? There
are other things we must consider. For example, because windows
computers are more affordable - they are more accessible to the
population and therefore used at a greater number. Or, perhaps Microsoft
spends more money on marketing and generates more sales of computers
than Apple does?

What do you think? Comment here: http://www.knighthacks.com
and vote for what operating system is better and why! More votes will
contribute to the wisdom of the crowd and will give us a more accurate
answer!